[agenda item read] >> roland, followed by taylor, and tarik. >> okay. two minutes. roland, taylor, tarik. >> this is a great way to endear yourself to -- >> hi, again. thai tailor algren. yesterday when the scooters launched, i'm excited for the scooters to be in san francisco because more two wheeled vehicles moving through the green lane means less cars on the road and less chance of me and my friends getting hit by a car? however, i know the latinodemocratic friends -- [inaudible] >> -- because they had quite a great equitiable proposal. when i got to the app, i downloaded both the apps and registered yesterday. there was no way for me to discover how -- how to access the low-income program, and nor -- i actually ended up having to, like, send e-mails to the support to find out how to do it? and it was, like, a really confusing process. and so i don't know what the expectations were for the low-income program, but the low-income program should be available on the first day of launch. when we put low-income program as a second -- a second after thought, we are put

cases torture these are not isolated cases this in fact is reflective of a machinery for oppression tarik says he was caught up in that machinery as a reporter in the west bank for hamas linked to television he's been detained four times twice he says he was tortured and i deserve a comedy and no i have a strong feeling that i can be detained any time without any need to press charges they can open my facebook and consider any post charge it is a cyber crime law is very vague. the p.a.'s interior ministry didn't make anyone available for interview in its response to human rights watch it denied any arbitrary arrests of a political speech adding anyone with an allegation of mistreatment could lodge a complaint the hamas interior ministry had a similar response. in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen we had three hundred fourteen complaints about mistreatment after we investigated it became clear that in ninety of these cases the officers acted badly and we punish them with. human rights watch says its report shows that such cases aren't aberrations but part of a system which defines insulting

but also frankly this looks likely possibly a game that they are playing with tarik trial of the nephew of the late president saleh was actually leading the charge against them and for data now. tarik hand as two sons are also under captivity and some are so they might be sending him a message look there's the possibility of us releasing your son's birth for that perhaps you can all dolphin attacking us. does this in any way. sorry to interrupt it does this in any way open have diplomatic channels will it change anything from the u.a.e. and saudi side and from the u.s. side. are from the u.s. side i don't think it changes very much the u.s. has not been directly involved. in the complex diplomacy here they have left the yemen fire in saudi hands. from saudi and u.a.e. sides and they haven't shine much willingness to. accept the whole key is back into the fall. so at this point i think you're. in better says than saudi and you e.u. signed the bill and there were house do even respond with some goodwill gesture of that on or ignore it and see that this is not an hour. that the host is in

it's about a boy named tarik a six year old superhero from aleppo but it could just as well be about. a really. wonderful merger we wish her the very best indeed now if you're feeling down on your luck and you're willing to part with some small change how about a trip to rome specifically to the eternal city legend retrieve the fountain it attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year all believing the throwing a coin into the fountain will bring them good luck but my question is what happens to the koans and how much i worth. it is sand but if you throw a coin into the trevi fountain you will return to right but you can wish for other things as well you just have to stand with your back to the fountain and toss the coin with your right hand so what are people wishing for order door and here it goes have beautiful city it got be that interview stage so i hope my interview we are to be passed. health and happiness for my family. lots of wishes means knots of coins three times a week the municipality sends a team around to collect the cash they vacuum it into a big pot the pickin

what's happening there in venezuela right so this week the minister of industries a national production tarik on the scene he said that what they're going to try to do is to eliminate the dollar in favor of the euro or the juan or any tradable currency in domestic business and devers and this is a response to the u.s. sanctions that i mentioned earlier in august twenty seventeen and that according to even an opposition economist opposition associate economist is when oil production which is the pillar of the venezuelan economy really started to tank and so we see a link between u.s. policy and the critical meltdown of the venezuelan economy right there with the sanctions even according to opposition comments that being said the u.s. this week said that they're considering oil sanctions on minutes wait all that sanctions have not yet specifically targeted that important key import for the united states similar to iran it was the oil imports sanctions were the last to go into place they said hold those in reserves for now now that is way it is a citgo and so we do get sued coal oil but they are

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the budgeting is extremely he so tarik. a normal accountant or finance person cannot sit down and look at the voucher management system entries and look at this two-year utilization tool and say, i see the errors. it takes a very specialized knowledge base. so we weren't rat liens on the fact that h.u.d. was sitting with the housing authority and saying, you know, we urge you to continue issuing vouchers. >> i am with you on that -- that is why there is nine out of 11 agencies in the bay area that have a shortfall. we are used to that. that is not how you miscalculate your reserves by $6 million. that is just -- i mean, that is just been caught -- unconscionable. >> it was terrible incompetence. we know now on the part of the finance staff. i'm o.c.d. and the city staff have no way of checking that. we are reliant upon h.u.d. and reliant upon the data we get from a separate, independent agency. and so, as h.u.d. moved forward and said, you rok, issue vouchers, we move forward too. so we feel that this is a very appropriate

in bamako in january two thousand and twelve that long held dream of creating a want an independent tarik homeland that would stretch across the sahara finally seemed within reach. but the two our eggs were not the only fighters in the desert small on groups which had emerge a decade earlier we're now well on forces to be reckoned. acme. and and sardine say they were fighting a holy war and went recruiting among the local population. islamists toward the book always full of the police security or law is off result although not remotely rather think it is a lot of them illegal to screw. around with you have approved of the last year of the rule of. doctors or law or. what. but the islam preached by these armed groups was nothing like the islam practice in this region for centuries the. good. ones you know will be. deleted in the back of. it but. if you're going to spend it if you're going to. thank. you so it's all said one of the. two leadership of the sharia buku it is also militant of syria kit want to start really calm but it certainly isn't as if you're to be the somebody. if you didn

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